The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERMistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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